Towards Intent-Driven Architecture Polygon’s new VaultBridge doesn’t just let “apps own their infrastructure.” It proves that infrastructure can be both a financial primitive, and a financial market participant. Seen in this light, AggLayer is moving from blockchain plumbing to capital-markets plumbing: a secured credit facility with rehypothecation rights. Like a prime-broker desk, it locks user collateral, redeploys that collateral for yield, issues synthetic claims on the destination chain, and nets multi-market settlement along the way. SDN déjà vu Software-Defined Networking split the control plane from the data plane so routing policy could change without swapping hardware. Blockchains are replaying the same story, only the dials being turned are economic, not packet-level. VaultBridge is an early “controller module,” a protocol-level upgrade that injects a new liquidity-routing policy into a live network with no consensus change required. Towards Intent-Driven Architecture Today these controllers remain mostly manual: Polygon governance decides the vault mix, and risk teams pin parameters. The next leap echoes SDN’s shift to intent-based networking, where prescribed rules become live markets. When *infrastructure themselves* become market participants, they can *express intents* so that resources such as security and liquidity can be sourced, and surplus such as block-space and clearance rights can be auctioned off - JUST IN TIME At that point infrastructure will be nothing but interconnected markets: financially defined, policy-driven, and intent-executed all the way down.